Moorgate

Moorgate is the city center and central business district of the City of London in London, Middlesex, England. The eponymous gate was built by the Romans as part of the London Wall, and it was named for the surrounding Moorfields. The gate was demolished in 1762, but Moorgate street was built in 1846, followed by the neighborhood's development into a financial center teeming with investment banks. A London Underground station called "Moorgate Street" opened in 1865, and, in 1975, the Northern line platforms were the site of the Moorgate tube crash, which killed 43 people.